Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 137 / Wednesday, July 21, 2021 / Notices 38499 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7036–N–03] 

60-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Data Collection and 

Reporting for HUD’s Homeless 

Assistance Programs—Annual 

Performance Report and System 

Performance Report; OMB Control No.: 

2506–0145 

AGENCY: Office of Community Planning 

and Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for the information collection 

described below. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is 

requesting comment from all interested 

parties on the proposed collection of 

information. The purpose of this notice 

is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: September 

20, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Comments should refer to 

the proposal by name and/or OMB 

Control Number and should be sent to: 

Anna Guido, Reports Management 

Officer, QDAM, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street 

SW, Room 4176, Washington, DC 

20410–5000; telephone 202–402–5535 

(this is not a toll-free number) or email 

at Anna.P.Guido@hud.gov for a copy of 

the proposed forms or other available 

information. Persons with hearing or 

speech impairments may access this 

number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877– 

8339. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William Snow, Office of Community 

Planning and Development, Department 

of Housing and Urban Development, 

451 7th Street SW, Washington, DC 

20410; email at William.Snow@hud.gov 

or telephone 202–402–4541. This is not 

a toll-free number. Persons with hearing 

or speech impairments may access this 

number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Relay Service at (800) 877– 

8339. Copies of available documents 

submitted to OMB may be obtained 

from Ms. Guido. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice informs the public that HUD is 

seeking approval from OMB for the 

information collection described in 

Section A. 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Title of Information Collection: Data 

Collection and Reporting for HUD’s 

Continuum of Care Program—Annual 

Performance Report and System 

Performance Report. 

OMB Approval Number: 2506–0145. 

Type of Request: Reinstatement. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: This 

request is for clearance of data 

collection and reporting to enable the 

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD) Office of 

Community Planning and Development 

(CPD) to continue to manage and assess 

the effectiveness of its homeless 

assistance projects on an annual basis. 

Per 24 CFR 578.103(e), HUD requires 

recipients and subrecipients that receive 

funding through the CoC Program 

(authorized by the McKinney-Vento 

Homeless Assistance Act, as amended 

by the Homeless Emergency Assistance 

and Rapid Transition to Housing 

(HEARTH) Act) to prepare and submit 

annual project-level reports on 

performance and spending. 

This request will also enable the HUD 

CPD Office to initiate a process to assess 

the effectiveness of local coordinated 

systems of homeless assistance. The 

McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 

Act, as amended, now requires 

communities to measure their 

performance as a coordinated system, in 

addition to analyzing performance by 

specific projects or project types. 

Section 427 of the Act established a set 

of selection criteria for HUD to use in 

awarding CoC Program funding. These 

selection criteria require CoCs to report 

to HUD their system-level performance. 

The intent of these selection criteria are 

to encourage CoCs, in coordination with 

Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) 

Program recipients and all other 

homeless assistance stakeholders in the 

community, to regularly measure their 

progress in meeting the needs of people 

experiencing homelessness in their 

community and to report this progress 

to HUD. This request is for HUD to 

collect system-level performance 

measure data from CoCs on an annual 

basis, as described in Appendix B of 

this document. 

The project APR and system-level 

performance measures both rely on a 

primary data source in each CoC—a 

local Homeless Management 

Information System (HMIS). An HMIS is 

an electronic data collection system that 

stores person-level information about 

homeless persons who access a 

community’s homeless service system. 

Over the past decade, HUD has 

supported the development of local 

HMIS by funding their development and 

implementation, by providing technical 

assistance, and by developing national 

data standards that enable the collection 

of standardized information on the 

characteristics, service patterns and 

service needs of homeless persons 

within a jurisdiction and across 

jurisdictions. These standards are 

described in HUD’s HMIS Data 

Standards. 

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REPORT

Information collection Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Burden hour 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

Hourly cost 

per response Annual cost 

Annual Performance Report (CoC Program)—Non-profit Recipients ............... 4,000 1 4 16,000 $39.89 $638,240.00 

Annual Performance Report (YHDP)— 

Non-profit Recipients ............................ 200 5 5 5,000 39.89 199,450.00 

Performance Report (Unsheltered 

Grants)—Non-profit Recipients ............ 25 5 4 500 39.89 19,945.00 

Annual Performance Report—State and 

Local Recipients ................................... 4,000 1 4 16,000 39.89 638,240.00 

Annual Performance Report (YHDP)— 

State and Local Recipients .................. 200 5 5 5,000 39.89 199,450.00 

Performance Report (Unsheltered 

Grants)—State and Local Recipients ... 25 5 4 500 39.89 19,945.00 

Total .................................................. 8,450 10,250 ........................ 43,000 ........................ 1,715,270.00 


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1Presidential Documents, 86 FR 7009 (Jan. 25, 

2021). 

SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASURES REPORT

Information collection Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Burden hour 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

Hourly cost 

per response Annual cost 

Group 1: CoCs with Automated Software 

Report ................................................... 385 1 13 5,005 $39.89 $199,649.45 

Group 2: CoCs with Manual Software 

Report ................................................... 15 1 15 225 39.89 8,975.25 

Total .................................................. 400 400 ........................ 5,230 ........................ 208,624.70

PERFORMANCE DATA CHECK-UP

Information collection Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Burden hour 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

Hourly cost 

per response Annual cost 

CoCs ........................................................ 400 4 1 1,600 $35.52 $56,832.00 

HMIS Lead Agency .................................. 400 1 1 400 35.52 14,208.00 

Project Recipients .................................... 600 1 1 300 35.52 10,656.00 

Total .................................................. 1,400 2,600 ........................ 2,300 ........................ 81,696.00 

B. Solicitation of Public Comment 

This notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

parties concerning the collection of 

information described in Section A on 

the following: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond; including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

HUD encourages interested parties to 

submit comment in response to these 

questions. 

C. Authority 

Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35. 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary 

for Community Planning and 

Development, James Arthur Jemison II, 

having reviewed and approved this 

document, is delegating the authority to 

electronically sign this document to 

submitter, Aaron Santa Anna, who is 

the Federal Register Liaison for HUD, 

for purposes of publication in the 

Federal Register. 

Aaron Santa Anna, 

Federal Register Liaison for the Department 

of Housing and Urban Development. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15461 Filed 7–20–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

Revision of a Currently Approved 

Information Collection Request 

Submitted for Public Comment; EBSA 

Participant Assistance Program 

Customer Survey 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the 

Department), in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

provides the general public and Federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on proposed and continuing 

collections of information. This helps 

the Department assess the impact of its 

information collection requirements and 

minimize the public’s reporting burden. 

It also helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. The 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration (EBSA) is soliciting 

comments on the proposed information 

collection request (ICR) described 

below. A copy of the ICRs may be 

obtained by contacting the office listed 

in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office shown in the 

ADDRESSES section on or before 

September 20, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: James Butikofer, 

Department of Labor, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW, N–5718, 

Washington, DC 20210, or ebsa.opr@

dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice requests public comment on the 

Department’s revision of a currently 

approved collection of information 

regarding a customer survey that solicits 

inquirers’ feedback on the applicability 

and utility of EBSA’s Participant 

Assistance Program. A summary of the 

ICR and the current burden estimates 

follows: 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration (EBSA), Department of 

Labor. 

Title: EBSA Participant Assistance 

Program Customer Survey. 

OMB Number: 1210–0161. 

Respondents: (Annual) 11,200. 

Number of Annual Responses: 11,200. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,867 

hours. 

Total Annual Costs: $0. 

Description: The demographic 

questions in the EBSA Participant 

Assistance Program Customer Survey 

are being updated in response to 

Executive Order 13985—Advancing 

Racial Equity and Support for 

Underserved Communities Through the 

Federal Government.1 The new 

demographic survey information will be 

used to provide additional training to 

EBSA benefits advisors in order to better 


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